Gavin Sherry wrote:
> I am at OpenDBCon in Germany. People are complaining about
> floats/numerics not accepting German/European conventions for the
> delimiter point -- a comma.
Supporting localized input formats everywhere (numbers, geometric
objects, date/time, arrays, etc.) will create dozens of incompatible
PostgreSQL variants.
I think a preferrable solution would be use an updatable view that has,
say, to_numeric tied in somewhere.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/